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CHAPTER XVI

HUGH wasn’t troubled only by religion and sex; the whole college was disturbing his peace of mind: all of his illusions rere being ruthlessly shattered. He had supposed hat all professors were wise men, that their nowledge was almost limitless, and he was finding hat many of the undergraduates were frankly conontemptuous of the majority of their teachers and hat he himself was finding inspiration from only a ew of them. He went to his classes because he elt that he had to, but in most of them he was conused or bored. He learned more in the bull sssions than he did in the class-room, and men like loss and Burbank were teaching him more than his istructors.

Further, Nu Delta was proving a keen disppointment. More and more he found himself linking of Malcolm Graham’s talk to him during le rushing season of his freshman year. He often wished that Graham were still in college so that e could go to him for advice. The fraternity was ot the brotherhood that he had dreamed about;

was composed of several cliques warring with

ich other, never coalescing into a single group

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